Hope everyone is doing well. I posted on the site often about two weeks ago with great news, then fell into a big slump. I needed to increase my dosage but was afraid to. But, since I have there has been a good improvement. I went from 200mg, then 300, then 400mg. That made all the difference in the world. I had to do something, from all the reading I have done here I knew it was estrogen dominance being woken up by the new progesterone use, but I really had to struggle to keep that in mind, so I wouldn't quit. I am so glad I didn't. Over 20 years of BCP and Aldactone use, plus PCOS required a higher dosage for me. I will continue without a break for 3 months, then reevaluate. I have no cycle to begin with, I think? Unless that bleeding that occurred a week or so into using the cream was a true menstrual bleed. I would have gone crazy if I didn't have this site to refer to. One morning was so bad, I felt like an exposed nerve, so anxious, feelings of doom, and how could I get through the day. I had zero patience, felt like I was coming out of my skin. That's when I knew I had to increase the dose.

I do need some questions answered re: my supplements, if any of them are redundant or am I missing some key supplements? I take quite a few for the PCOS and MTHFR.

Hi its Cindy and I thought Id chime in when I saw in your post about maca and say I tried maca root before because its supposed to help with excess estrogen and " for me " it made me worse I became grumpy and mean and im a nice person so i looked it up on google and one thing i read , don't remember where is that it increases testosterone so in the garbage it went and i felt better after a day or so . I take about 250 mg of progesterone a day it has helped me tremendously and I wish I used this much when I was a young mother and needed more patience because it surly does help with that .

Sep 05, 2014

Hi Cindyby: Chloe

The exact same thing happened to me, I should have said " try Maca again" I have a box off Maca Harmony lying around from a year or so ago. I took it for two days, in another attempt to get off BCP'S. I really didn't care for how it made me feel. I figured it was other things going on, but know that you mention it, that's how I felt on it. Thank you, I don't want to revisit that feeling again. I sometimes wonder when I hear people take things like Vitex and Maca, or another similar herb/ adaptogen, along with progesterone cream...... If they compete or cancel each other out? We're trying to make progesterone dominant, then taking a regulator of sorts makes me wonder if it's effecting that too? Just a passing thought. Thanks again!

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